Biografie van de Vlaamse schrijver (1882-1960).

The Growth of Scientific Knowledge

De eerste volledige en authentieke geschiedenis van ontstaan en gevolgen van het Stalinisme

Bundel essays over een breed scala aan onderwerpen waarover de historicus (1943) zijn veelal non-conformistische meningen uit.

Clear, insightful, and nondogmatic, this book gives us a new appreciation for one of our most ubiquitous institutions. From the wild swings of the stock market to the online auctions of eBay to the unexpected twists of the world's post-Communist economies, markets have suddenly become quite visible. We now have occasion to ask, "What makes these institutions work? How important are they? How can we improve them?" Taking us on a lively tour of a world we once took for granted, John McMillan offers examples ranging from a camel trading fair in India to the $20 million per day Aalsmeer flower market in the Netherlands to the global trade in AIDS drugs. Eschewing ideology, he shows us that markets are neither magical nor immoral. Rather, they are powerful if imperfect tools, the best we've found for improving our living standards. Peter Bernstein's Against the Gods enabled us to see risk in a whole new light. McMillan's book will do the same for markets.

No one has more authority to call the shots the way they really are than Paul Krugman, whose provocative New York Times columns are keenly followed by millions. One of the world's most respected economists, Krugman has been named America's most important columnist by the Washington Monthly and columnist of the year by Editor and Publisher magazine.

In this long-awaited work containing Krugman's most influential columns along with new commentary, he chronicles how the boom economy unraveled: how exuberance gave way to pessimism, how the age of corporate heroes gave way to corporate scandals, how fiscal responsibility collapsed. From his account of the secret history of the California energy crisis to his devastating dissections of dishonesty in the Bush administration, Krugman tells the uncomfortable truth about how the United States lost its way. And he gives us the road map we will need to follow if we are to get the country back on track.

The story of this storm in the global markets is the story of how government intervention to solve previous crises laid the foundation for a new one, writes Johan Norberg in his important new book. Tracing the causes of our current financial crisis with liveliness and clarity, Financial Fiasco shows the mistakes made in Washington, on Wall Street, and in communities across America that led to the economic meltdown. While many analysts have placed the blame solely on Wall Street, Norberg exposes the crucial role government regulation played in creating the opportunities and incentives that led to the financial collapse. In six concise chapters, Financial Fiasco tells the complex story of the crisis, showing how monetary policy, housing policy, and financial innovations combined to create financial catastrophe. The final two chapters describe the government's mismanagement of the crisis and how we are now dangerously repeating many of the very same mistakes that caused it. An understanding of the roots of the financial crisis is crucial for every American who has felt its effects - and would like to prevent the same disaster from happening again. Financial Fiasco provides that understanding, with great insight, clarity, and wit. Just as important, the book serves as a profound warning against pursuing the wrong solutions. After government authorities had helped create the worst financial crisis in generations, the climate of ideas has now shifted dramatically in the direction of bigger and more active government," Norberg writes. Financial Fiasco is the perfect antidote to those ideas, a cautionary tale on how to stop confusing the disease with the cure."--Jacket.

Een Amerikaanse journaliste beschrijft haar leven met haar man, een militair die naar Irak wordt uitgezonden en daar sneuvelt; hij laat een dagboek na vol wijze raad aan hun pasgeboren zoontje.

Het levensverhaal van het West-Afrikaanse meisje Aminata Diallo, dat in 1755 als 11-jarige door slavenhandelaars naar Amerika gehaald wordt, maar uitgroeit tot een icoon van de anti-slavernij-beweging.

Beschouwingen en columns over het veranderende politieke klimaat, mede na de moord op Theo van Gogh op 2 november 2004.

De geschiedenis en de rol van Kurt Waldheim (oud-secretaris-generaal van de VN en president van Oostenrijk) voor, tijdens en na de Tweede Wereldoorlog.

Verzameling columns over het leven in de culturele wereld van New York in de jaren zeventig en tachtig.

Onderzoekt gebruiksvriendelijkheid bij mens-machine interacties met introductie van het begrip Flow. 

Harry Lamin was born in Derbyshire in 1877 and left school at thirteen to work in the lace industry, but by December 1916 he had been conscripted into the 9th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment and sent to war. Harry's letters home to his family describe the conflict with a poignant immediacy, even ninety years on, detailing everything from the action in battle to the often amusing incidents of life amongst his comrades. Throughout the letters, Harry's tone is unwaveringly stoical, uncomplaining and good humoured. Letters From The Trenches is a fitting tribute to the unsung heroes of the Great War who fought and endured and returned home, and the one in six who did not. The letters describe the war through the eyes of those who really lived it, bringing the horrors and triumphs to life for the twenty-first-century reader. Edited by Harry's grandson, Bill, Letters From The Trenches tells the moving story of a brave, selfless and honourable man who endured everything that the war could throw at him, and still came up smiling.

Geschiedenis van de Amerikaanse economie en de financiële markt in de Verenigde Staten vanaf de jaren tachtig tot en met de kredietcrisis van 2008.

Ever Since Darwin, Stephen Jay Gould's first book, has sold more than a quarter of a million copies. Like all succeeding collections by this unique writer, it brings the art of the scientific essay to unparalleled heights.

Journalistieke beschrijving van wat zich afspeelde aan het oostfront in de Tweede Wereldoorlog.

Een meisje dat op haar twaalfde jaar te horen krijgt dat zij leukemie heeft, beschrijft haar ervaringen en gevoelens tot aan haar dood.

Dagboek van de Nederlandse dichter (1970- ) over de zomer 2001.

Uitgave van boekhandel Roelants ter gelegenheid van een ontmoeting van J.J. Voskuil met zijn lezers op zondag 31 januari 1999. Een bundel met 27 meest academische reacties op 'Het Bureau'.

Columns verschenen tussen augustus 2013 en augustus 2014 in de Volkskrant.

Overzicht van belangrijke wetenschappelijke ontwikkelingen op het gebied van de natuurwetenschappen vanaf de achttiende eeuw.